Sometimes a Text Is Worth a Thousand Words
4/5/2011 “I love you with all my heart. I can’t wait until we move into our new house. We’ll have so much time together.” That is a recent text from my “troubled teen.” I put that in quotations purposely—that’s what a mother will wait a lifetime to hear, and when she does, she forgets the past in an instant. She tells me these types of things quite often, and I truly believe that’s how she feels. However, there’s a part…
